STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete

STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete
ISBN-10
1621390039
ISBN-13
9781621390039
Category
Social Science
Pages
520
Language
English
Published
2011-06-15
Publisher
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Authors
Kevin T. Glowacki, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan

Description

This volume presents the papers of an international colloquium on the archaeology of houses and households in ancient Crete held in Ierapetra in May 2005. The 38 papers presented here range from a discussion of household activities at Final Neolithic Phaistos to the domestic correlates of “globalization” during the early Roman Empire. These studies demonstrate a variety of methodological approaches currently employed for understanding houses and household activities. Key themes include understanding the built environment in all of its manifestations, the variability of domestic organization, the role of houses and households in mediating social (and perhaps even ethnic) identity within a community or region, household composition, and of course, household activities of all types, ranging from basic subsistence needs to production and consumption at a suprahousehold level.

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